Free university textbooks, but with Ads!
August 16th, 2006 Zeid Nasser (Admin)
Here’s what could be the start of a controversial new media.
A new company, Freeload Press, is offering students the opportunity to obtain free text books, downloaded as PDF files that include advertising. All a student needs to do is answer questions on a simple survey and accept the advertising in the text books!
Apparently, textbooks cost a lot nowadays, and costly things that becomes free will obviously succeed right?
I personally think that advertising should stay out of some things in life, like curriculum text books. Other measures must be taken to provide needy students with free, or used, textbooks.
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